Yong Pung How

Yong Pung How DUBC, DUT (First Class)
杨邦孝
Yong in 2014
2nd Chief Justice of Singapore
In office 28 September 1990 – 10 April 2006
Appointed by	Wee Kim Wee
Preceded by	Wee Chong Jin
Succeeded by	Chan Sek Keong
Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore
In office 1 July 1989 – 27 September 1990
Appointed by	Wee Kim Wee
Personal details
Born	(1926-04-11)11 April 1926 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (then Selangor, FMS)
Died	9 January 2020(2020-01-09) (aged 93) Singapore
Nationality	Singaporean
Spouse(s)	Yong Wei Woo
Alma mater	Downing College, Cambridge

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yong (杨).

Yong Pung How
Simplified Chinese	杨邦孝
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yáng Bāngxiào

Yong Pung How DUBC DUT (First Class) (11 April 1926 – 9 January 2020) was a Singaporean judge. He served as Chief Justice from 1990 to 2006. Before being a judge, he was a lawyer, banker and senior government official. From 2010 until his death in 2020, he had been the Chancellor of the Singapore Management University. Yong was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. He came from an ethnic Chinese family with Hakka ancestry from Dabu County, Guangdong.

Yong died on 9 January 2020, at the age of 93.^[1]

References

1. Lum, Selina (9 January 2019). "Singapore's former chief justice Yong Pung How dies, aged 93". The Straits Times. Retrieved 9 January 2019.